Clergy-Perpetrated Sexual Abuse in Ghana: A Media Content Analysis of Survivors, Offenders, and Offence CharacteristicsShow others and affiliations
2022 (English)In: Journal of religion and health, ISSN 0022-4197, E-ISSN 1573-6571, Vol. 61, no 4, p. 3028-3054Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]
While there are no official data and published studies on clergy-perpetrated sexual abuse (CPSA) from Ghana, local media reports continue to show worrying trends of the phenomenon. We drew on 73 media reports from January 2000 to March 2019, to describe the offence characteristics and profiles of the perpetrators and survivors of CPSA in Ghana. The findings showed females aged 10-19 as predominant survivors. The perpetrators were all males found guilty of lone rape, incest, defilement, indecent assault, sodomy, attempted rape, or gang rape. A preventive measure could involve streamlining the recruitment, training, and leadership structures of the church.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Springer, 2022. Vol. 61, no 4, p. 3028-3054
Keywords [en]
Clergy, Clergy-perpetrated sexual abuse, Ghana, Neo-prophetic ministry, Sexual abuse
National Category
Public Health, Global Health, Social Medicine and Epidemiology
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:oru:diva-94581DOI: 10.1007/s10943-021-01430-3ISI: 000698144200001PubMedID: 34545455Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85115170304OAI: oai:DiVA.org:oru-94581DiVA, id: diva2:1597394
2021-09-272021-09-272022-11-30Bibliographically approved